Having seen it in a few pics of “the one”,I was trying to remember who this pose reminded me of – bingo! Old newsreels of Mussolini reviewing parades.
M added a gesture though,gently but briskly slapping the exposed throat/chin area with the back of his right hand’s 4 extended fingers.I have no idea what the significance of this was meant to be.
Could be adopted as a useful signal to his crew,e.g. “attention,teleprompt has problems”.

So, I guess telling an intern “Go to the Wild Oats and get me some Tuscan Kale, whatever the f*** that is” was not an option?

I mean, twenty years ago Arkansas State Troopers would go and pick up hookers for some guy with a saxophone who thought he was the governor. Surely the skill at running errands for the boss has not been lost!

One can not have former residents of the Hyde Park area of Chicago (the home of some of the most distingished Marxists in the nation – and some of the most distingished Islamists also, and they get on really well “the enemy of my enemy” and the enemy of both being the reactionary “freedom” loving West) rubbing shoulders with with common herd.

The common herd are for “organizing” for getting to shout “Obama, Obama” in a rapture (and for tearing the pieces the enemies of THE ONE) – not for rubbing shoulders with.

Of course once Michelle Obama could have gone to “Whole Foods” for her “organic stuff”, however the founder of Whole Foods turns out not to like THE ONE, in fact he thinks he is a Maxist scumbag.

The founder of Whole Foods has committed two crimes (three if one includes not handing over his chain of stores to the people’s represatives).

He has associated Marxism with something bad (the greatest and most noble minds in the history of the universe are not scumbags), and the inner secrets (the unholy mysteries) are not for the common herd (those victims of false consciousness) are not educated enough to learn of the noble Marxism of THE ONE.

Counting Cats (CC) was taken to task by several other commenters for being too squeamish and perhaps even morally neutral about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys here. While I don't share CC's reaction to the video, I rejoice in his (her?) existence. What kind of a world would it be if people like CC didn't exist or if they had to hide their views? Who knows, we might all be living in something akin to Somalia.
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CC's civilized response is precisely why our military is a force for good in the world.